Was Cameron deploying his tried-and-tested "full-bladder technique" to achieve maximum focus and clarity of thought?

As the Tory party conference winds up David Cameron party leader and currently prime minister of the U.K. made a rallying speech Wednesday to the party faithful. It may even persuade floating voters to opt for the Tories in any local elections before the next general election in 2020.

However for this long time Labour supporter just watching pudgy-faced and small mouthed Cameron spinning the truth is too much to bear.

He could not persuade me on any subject.

Reading the report of his speech though one thing stood out and that was his attack on the new leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn.

When British political parties are back at their day jobs in the House of Commons Cameron and Corbyn will face each other across parliament.

Mr Corbyn a lifelong pacifist and peace promoter, in his first PM question time, dominated the day in a new, quiet and fresh way.

Corbyn is trying to move away from parliament at its worst when the face it shows the world and British voters is often petulant, childish and angry.

As David Cameron tried to get Corbyn's measure at that prime minister's questions he played along with an inclusive, calm and sensible debate but that did not last long.

In Wednesday's speech Cameron attacked Jeremy Corbyn.

As the Guardian reports Cameron told conference "My friends – we cannot let that man [Corbyn] inflict his security-threatening, terrorist-sympathising, Britain-hating ideology on the country we love.."

Yet 'that man' has only been Labour party leader a matter of weeks and much of that time has been dominated by the political party conference season in the U.K.

Of course Cameron is now an experienced party leader and PM and his attack will have a touch of strategy to it. A parliamentary vote on possible military action in Syria is expected and Cameron in attacking Corbyn is laying the ground work for a vote.

But the PM is always playing mind games with the general public and it is up to us to prove we are better than that.

Mr Corbyn has been trying to get supporters to focus of core issues and stop silly name calling.

Cameron is unable to do that and has launched the first childish unsubstantiated attack on Mr Corbyn.

Cameron also opted to take Mr Corbyn's words on the death of Osama Bin Laden out of context, mix them up and so invent a new meaning.

As Nicholas Watt reports, the prime minister delivered a direct warning about the threat posed by his opposition rival in a speech at the Conservative party conference in Manchester. “Thousands of words have been written about the new Labour leader,” he told party members. “But you only really need to know one thing: he thinks the death of Osama bin Laden was a ‘tragedy’.”

Thank goodness it is over. Even if you tried to avoid all that empty and self-glorifying talk, you could not. To crown it all Cameron's forever attacking ad trying to discredit Labour and especially Mr Corbyn was all he could bring to the tble plus more empty promises.

All in all it was nothing but a waste of money and you bet it was taxpayers' money.

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Richard Beadle

10/10/2015 12:52:34 am

Whatever you think or say, Corbyn is showing how weak he is by attempting to appease IS by sympathising over the death of a terrorist.

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